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Knocked out Mk VI Tiger tank at Belpasso, Sicily, 1943. A German Tiger tank in Sicily, 1943. German troops of the Hermann Göring Division. Sicily 1943. Although Allied planners opted to concentrate their ground forces in the anticipation of tough Axis resistance, the actual combat capability of Axis troops deployed in Sicily was questionable. Axis forces consisted of between 200,000…
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The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte was a design for a huge tank for use by Nazi Germany during World War…
The German character has always respected practical attainments and academic endeavour. To this day, the visiting industrialist who goes to…
After Napoleon fled Egypt, General Kléber took Napoleon’s place as the commander of the army, he was assassinated shortly after.…
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Read more about the World War II match up between Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks here:
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Of the two planning options he had submitted to Hitler in February to address the situation in Russia for the…
The few armoured vehicles from the 1948 campaign such as the Vickers Mk VIB, M22 Locust and assorted Bren gun…
At Borna, Frederick the Great and his staff develop their battle plan, as illustrated by Hugo Ungewitter To the Prussians’…
Excavations on the site of the Mainz Hilton discovered eleven fast patrol boats of the Roman navy, which must have…
On the night of 12/13 June 1944 shortly after midnight German long-range guns opened up and sent shells across the Channel. Eight fell on Maidstone, one at Otham and twenty-four at Folkestone. The effect of this bombardment was the belief for some people that the Germans were using some sort…
A view of New Amsterdam (New York) in 1673. Port Royal as it appeared before the earthquake in 1692. The outer edges of the map are the borders of the old Port Royal, while the darkly shaded area toward the bottom and middle depicts the boundary of the city after…
The epibates (left) is a citizen-hoplite in his early twenties. His panoply (panoplia), weighing anywhere from 22.7 to 31.7kg (50-70lb), consists of a shield (aspis) some 90cm (35 1/2in.) in diameter, a bronze helmet, a bronze or linen corselet and bronze greaves. Built on a wooden core, the shield is…
Modern Recreation of an Ancient Egyptian Relief Depicting the Races of Man Known to the Egyptians – From Right to Left: Egyptian, Canaanite/Asiatic, Nubian, and Four Different Libyan Chieftains JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN The separation of the two lands into their constituent parts might have been the new political reality, but…
(TA Victims Great and Small: Subchaser No. 46 (left) and destroyer Shimakaze (right). As depicted by Takeshi Yuki, “Color Paintings of Japanese Warships”) THIS IS THE SECOND OF THREE INSTALLMENTS WHICH WILL DETAIL THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTS TO REINFORCE LEYTE. PART I COVERS TA Nos. 1-2, AND PART III, TA Nos.…
After Mao Zedong and the communists took power in China in 1949 they obtained several hundred Soviet T-34/85s. These were used to equip a single mechanized division. After some delay the Chinese began to produce a copy designated the Type 58, but this was swiftly redundant with the appearance of…
Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli, by Philippoteaux (Galerie des Batailles, Palace of Versailles) Fought on the hilly ground between Lake Garda and the Adige River, a dozen miles northwest of Verona, the Battle of Rivoli was Bonaparte’s most decisive victory in his first Italian campaign. The defeat at Rivoli led…
It is difficult today to remember that at the height of the Cold War the possibility of Communist hordes pouring across Central Europe was a very real threat. For four decades Europe stood on the brink of the Third World War, thanks to the heavily-armed standoff between the North Atlantic…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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